Easy Listening

The Old Tokaido by Patrick Carey

It's been a couple of months since I've had the attention span to read. My subway rides were always the best time to get lots of dedicated reading time in. Now that I don't have subway rides, I listen to podcasts as I walk Clyde or while I'm working. Ross and I are always on the lookout for new ones. Recently, he turned me on to the True Story Podcast, which is pretty similar to a constant fav, The Moth.

Here's my top 5:
Fresh Air
This American Life
The Moth
America's Test Kitchen (another new fav!)
Story Corp

I also listen to Jillian Michaels, Alec Balwin,  Rick Steves (the PBS money belt travel guy!), After The Jump (from Design*Sponge), Radiolab, and 99% Invisible.

This list is probably very similar to yours, but if I'm missing something great, please share it with me!

I'm really excited for this book on the Tokaido and plan to dedicate some time to it. I'm also looking forward to getting some subway reading time in soon!

Ayyy OOhh

According to Mr. Bianchi, my H.S. Japanese teacher, a Brooklyn accent is great from learning Japanese. For those of you (ahem, Connie) that had Mr. Bianchi with me, remember him??? He was the first American to be elected into public office in Japan as an assemblyman, here's a short clip from NPR. Thanks for all the hard snoop work Mun.

Joseph Banda's Wish

The other day I heard this wonderful broadcast on WNYC about a thirteen year old boy from a slum in Zambia named Joseph Banda who after this initial story on his slum, Chibolya the listeners of BBC offered to pay for a flying lesson for Joseph, who would like to become a pilot and start a fund for his education. This story about Joseph Banda's wish has stayed with me this whole week. The charm and the dream of this young boy and his wonder as he takes off into the air and looks at the slums from a different perspective has been a warming story. It is with this story of hope that I leave you this week for Christmas and join my family for some holiday cheer. Happy holidays dear friends. I wish you warmth and well wishes as we draw 2009 to a close. I'll pop in again some time next week.

Nymphoto on NPR's Picture Show!!!!!

Almost forgot to mention the highlight of my week. Nymphoto is featured on NPR's Picture Show. One of my photos is in the slide show!!!! This is so exciting because I love NPR!

Thank you Jane and Nymphoto for making it happen.